Melissa Ko
Assessment & Curriculum Design Specialist at University of California, Berkeley
California, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Ko is an assessment and curriculum design specialist with 11 years of experience applying research-driven pedagogy to higher education, currently supporting equitable student outcomes at UC Berkeley. With a PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford and a BS from MIT, she blends rigorous scientific training with classroom practice from roles at Stanford, Foothill College, and Santa Clara University. Her work focuses on assessment, inclusive teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, translating evidence-based strategies into scalable curriculum and faculty development. Known for treating assessment as a design problem, she combines data enthusiasm with instructional design to ask not just whether students learn, but how every student can be supported to do so.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biology, Literature, B.S., Biology, Literature at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cancer Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cancer Biology at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
knitr6
rmarkdown4
r4
data-visualization3
stable3
finance3
data-wrangling3
data-visualisation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mesako/mesako.github.io
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:281 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
zunderlab/FLOWMAP
Sep 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:480 commits, 14 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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